2001 Jeep Wrangler problems
The 2001 Jeep Wrangler has 235 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (17%) concerns body & structure. After that come electrical system (16%) and engine (11%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 235 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Body & structure 17% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 25 and 19
- Injuries and deaths
- 29 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 89,000 miles 139 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 17 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 6 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 26 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 14 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 17 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 16 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 18 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 7 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 8 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 3 |
| 200k+ miles | 7 |
What the data shows
Among the 139 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 89,000 miles. For body & structure specifically, the median reported mileage is about 97,000 miles (30 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 25 complaints mention a crash; 19 complaints mention a fire; 29 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 88% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2001 ranks 28th most-complained-about out of 35 model years of the Jeep Wrangler with enough data (91 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 3 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
The jeep was driven 6 miles, parked in owners yard. Within 5 minutes owner smelled plastic and looked out to see fire and smoke coming from jeep. Motor was melted. Very obvious electrical orgin. Switch was off . Extensive damage. Had owner not beeb quick with hose his home would have burned also.owner burned hand raising hood. Motor not running, switch off jeep caught fire quickly. Repoorts of another jeep burned at bucannon auto mall in bucannon wv this makes 3 that I know of.
Takata recall my vehicle was in motion traveling about 50 MPH when it lost control on a wet road. The car slid across the road, over a small ditch, and head on into a tree. The car bounced from the tree and swiped the drivers side with another tree and finally bouncing back towards the road. The road was slightly curved downhill in a small town. I attempted to use my brakes while out of control but they were ineffective. The weather conditions were thunderstorms on and off, raining in the area of the accident.
Was traveling down dirt road at at 20 to 25 MPH, then heard different noise like metal scraping. Shifting seemed a little harder but was still working. After returning home I looked under the jeep and found the transmission skid plate had rusted away from the frame and only 3 bolts on the drivers side holding the transmission in place. If traveling at highway speeds and if both sides broke loose this would have been a different story.
This is been an ongoing problem since I purchased this vehicle the frame is pretty much completely rotted away basically since the day I bought it it is cost me almost $4000 to get the frame repair of repeatably. One such time my transmission and transfer case actually fell out because the skid plate rotted out for bolts on. This specific repair cost me almost $3000 to fix as I had to get another transfer case and a newport of rail made.